The first version of RPGE, RPGE 0.0.1, has now been officially released. You can get it from ftp://ftp.gnu.org by ftp, or grab the latest git snapshot. It includes a copy of RPGE's manual to help you get started and a short demo example.

I'd like to welcome Chris Bryant, maintainer of GNU vmslib, to the RPGE team. Chris' first contributions will be related to RPGE's somewhat peculiar build system and finding out if support for OpenVMS could be added to RPGE.

I've decided that RPGE shall now head for its first release, meaning that I've frozen the list of things people should be able to do with that release. Therefore, sound support and other such things will not be added at this point, while I work on finishing up the details of this first release.
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